Stop talking about apps, and start talking about protocols.
This is the problem with computing and the internet over the last 10 years. We switched from developers saying "I want to create a protocol that does X, and I'll make the first app that implements it" to developers saying "I want to sell ads, so I'll make a proprietary app that does X, and refuse to open it up to other developers." It's the pre-1983 IBM -vs- Compaq mentality.
There are a lot more direct, believable explanations for the reduced crime. Better policing, reduced drug use, increased access to birth control and safe abortions (the abortions thing is very politically charged, sorry!), improved education, increased surveillance, reduced poverty, better mental health care, and loads more. The lead connection is very indirect. The lead theory is compelling because it is a red herring - it was unexpected, almost like there is some secret underground reason that we've all been missing. It makes for a cool story, but we will never really know how much, if any, impact it has.
Funny, I know hundreds of people who own guns and fire them all the time, yet none of them have killed a human being. And most of them have never killed anything with them, even animals. Are you sure guns have no other purpose?
Religious Reich is always trying to shit on public education
Your term "religious reich" conjures images of flat-earthers and young-earthers trying to change school boards to ban actual science. As you point-out, real actual science is the cure. Fair enough, but do not make the mistake of believing that this problem only exists on the right: the far left is doing the same thing.
I know pseudo-science hippies who take Homeopathic remedies, attend Reiki sessions, bless their water to change it's molecular structure to be happier, and plaster Facebook with articles about how nuclear plants in Japan are causing birth defects in Wyoming. They caution me that I live to close to power lines, then wear magnetic bracelets to improve the flow of their aura.
The problem is kinda related to religion, but it isn't religion itself. Questioning the origin of the universe, believing in God, and being spiritual aren't problems in-and-of-themselves. I've known suicidal drug-addicts who just needed to know they are loved, who were afraid of death. And religion saved them and gave them productive lives. The real problem is dogma.
Religion is a plague that retards progress.
Dogma is a plague that retards progress. It is what organized religion and organized political parties devolve into. But dogma != religion. When people on Slashdot talk about religion, they are rarely talking about God. Instead, they are talking about some particular dogma. It's not God that is the problem, it is humans. Part of the reason we conflate religion with dogma is because the media can't report on healthy normal people having normal religious practices. They can only show the extremists because that is all that is newsworthy.
Wow, really cool point. Looking at that chart, the developed countries with the best GPP/CO2 levels are also the greenest overall. Ex: Germany, Scandinavia, Europe. This means investments in good environmental practices not only lower the absolute amount the country emits, but they lower it per-capita as well. I think that means that these practices don't harm overall GDP. That's important!
So what are you measuring the speed in, miles per hour?
No, the OP is correct, Hz is largely irrelevant. To answer your question, you measure speed in dhrystones, whetstones, flops, fill rate, FPS, and whatever units are used by popular apps like Passmark. Measuring CPU or GPU speed in Hz is like measuring the speed of a car speed in RPM.
(And the US is already one of the least polluting nation
I keep hearing that we are one of the worst, or at least the worst per-capita. But maybe that depends on how you define pollution. In regards to the Paris agreement, CO2 is the relevant pollutant. The EPA claims that we are second to China which probably matches the worst per-capita statement, since we have a way lower population than China. Wikipedia has some good charts too.
How about change the voice mail to say "By leaving a voice mail message on this voice mailbox, I certify that I will pay $1,000 per call and beat myself about the face and neck with a baseball bat."
the license plate does not belong to the car owner, but belongs to the state. It may be a bit of a hollow argument,
OMG, are you serious? That is pretty weak! If that is their basis, then someone could make a replica license plate that looks just like theirs, but isn't. Then could that person claim that they can't take the pictures?
Suppose president X gives a televised speech every day at the VFW hall on M street. People can attend in person, or call-in and ask questions. Someone shows up with a picture of Pope Francis looking and frowning at Trump captioned "this is pretty much how the whole world sees you." During the Q&A period, they walk up to the camera with their picture so that it is broadcast. President X asks that the VFW hall not permit the person to take the stage during the Q&A period.
The person can go to the VFW hall, can still bring the picture, and can still hear the presidents speech. They just can't use the Q&A period to broadcast their picture. In reality, this happens all the time with various events that politicians hold. They don't allow certain reporters to attend, and clearly that is politically based. They only go on certain talk shows with certain hosts on certain networks. And the hosts won't allow certain people to ask questions.
I think this analogy is correct because the person didn't have their Twitter account blocked. Their posts just don't show-up in response to the president's comments. They can't respond to the president in his part of the forum.
But that case was based on the fact that the police had to physically touch the car to install it. So the precedent is very narrow. If they could track the car without physically touching it, then they have a way around the limitation. Given the prevalence of license plate scanners, traffic cameras, cell towers, drones, and camera-laden aircraft, it seems like that case won't have teeth for very long.
I am an introvert, and I love getting into the coding zone. But I don't get how you can design software remotely. Design sessions are typically 2-3 people in front of a whiteboard, sharing a keyboard and screen, vehemently discussing things with our hands, eyes, and voices. Having worked remotely for 3 years, there was just no good way to collaborate on design. People silo'd, vanished for hours or days, and efficiency suffered.
This seems like an erosion of the law. I don't think the law intended for buying coffee to form an implicit contract where the seller could enforce any arbitrary rules whatsoever.
Because thanks to Orin Hatch (R-Utah) the burden of proof is on the FDA
Can you explain what you mean by that? As someone who works on FDA-approved medical devices, I can tell you that this is now how the FDA works. The burden of proof is always on the company that makes the claims. Is there some kind of special case that this company is working under where the rules are different?
If you limit the payments to only low-income people, it's welfare and not universal income.
Two items of business here:
1. What's the difference between giving UBI to the low-income people, versus giving it to everyone than taking it back from the wealthy in taxes? They are essentially the same. One is possibly more efficienct, but really the difference is political. As you point out: what exactly is "universal income?"
2. The word "welfare" has been politicized to mean "stuff given to low-income people" but that is not what it means. Medicare, food stamps, social security, schools, veterans assistance, police, and fire service are all welfare programs. This definition is important both because it is used in the preamble to the constitution, and because opens one to the realization that Democrats and Republicals are both in favor of welfare. But Democrats favor welfare for the poor, and Republicans favor of welfare for the elderly. Basically, both parties tax-and-spend the same way, just targeting different constituents.
Exactly. I have relatives who are social workers of varying kinds. They deal with people on a day-to-day basis who would blow their entire check on drugs/alcohol/horse racing/soda if they could. Many of the people on public housing, food stamps, section 8, unemployment, etc are there because they are mentally handicapped in some way. If we replace all that with a UBI, I fear homelessness will skyrocket.
A few years ago, they did start to get hobbiest stuff back in. That was *almost* the right move. But their employees didn't know anything about the new products. Why buy retail if they don't know their own product line?
My favorite incident was when they had an in-store video advertisement for a Sphero. I asked the cashier where to find them, and they didn't know what a Sphero was. It turned out they didn't sell them! *facepalm*
It's tragic as I would really like to see someone fill the void and maybe mom and pop shops will. That's what I can hope for anyway.
My local mom-and-pop store closed recently too. It was a great place to buy antennas, loose electronics parts, connectors, soldering irons, push buttons, etc. It was a cool store, and their employees did actually know stuff - but it hadn't changed since 1985. They didn't know what an ARM or a Raspberry Pi or a 3D printer were. But the worst was their hours. Weekdays they closed at 6pm and they were closed Sundays. I almost want to buy the store and re-open it 5pm - 10pm weekdays, plus Saturday and Sunday. THAT is when people need the store open!
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If only there was a secure version of the http protocol that prevented man-in-the-middle attacks...
Stop talking about apps, and start talking about protocols.
This is the problem with computing and the internet over the last 10 years. We switched from developers saying "I want to create a protocol that does X, and I'll make the first app that implements it" to developers saying "I want to sell ads, so I'll make a proprietary app that does X, and refuse to open it up to other developers." It's the pre-1983 IBM -vs- Compaq mentality.
There are a lot more direct, believable explanations for the reduced crime. Better policing, reduced drug use, increased access to birth control and safe abortions (the abortions thing is very politically charged, sorry!), improved education, increased surveillance, reduced poverty, better mental health care, and loads more. The lead connection is very indirect. The lead theory is compelling because it is a red herring - it was unexpected, almost like there is some secret underground reason that we've all been missing. It makes for a cool story, but we will never really know how much, if any, impact it has.
Funny, I know hundreds of people who own guns and fire them all the time, yet none of them have killed a human being. And most of them have never killed anything with them, even animals. Are you sure guns have no other purpose?
Early reports say he first walked up to there, unarmed asking "Hey, are these republicans or democrats?"...
That quote is waay to politically charged to go uncited. So here it is: Rep. Ron DeSantis said he was asked, “Are those Republicans or Democrats out there practicing?”
Religious Reich is always trying to shit on public education
Your term "religious reich" conjures images of flat-earthers and young-earthers trying to change school boards to ban actual science. As you point-out, real actual science is the cure. Fair enough, but do not make the mistake of believing that this problem only exists on the right: the far left is doing the same thing.
I know pseudo-science hippies who take Homeopathic remedies, attend Reiki sessions, bless their water to change it's molecular structure to be happier, and plaster Facebook with articles about how nuclear plants in Japan are causing birth defects in Wyoming. They caution me that I live to close to power lines, then wear magnetic bracelets to improve the flow of their aura.
The problem is kinda related to religion, but it isn't religion itself. Questioning the origin of the universe, believing in God, and being spiritual aren't problems in-and-of-themselves. I've known suicidal drug-addicts who just needed to know they are loved, who were afraid of death. And religion saved them and gave them productive lives. The real problem is dogma.
Religion is a plague that retards progress.
Dogma is a plague that retards progress. It is what organized religion and organized political parties devolve into. But dogma != religion. When people on Slashdot talk about religion, they are rarely talking about God. Instead, they are talking about some particular dogma. It's not God that is the problem, it is humans. Part of the reason we conflate religion with dogma is because the media can't report on healthy normal people having normal religious practices. They can only show the extremists because that is all that is newsworthy.
Here is why people embrace the IoT no matter what.
Wow, really cool point. Looking at that chart, the developed countries with the best GPP/CO2 levels are also the greenest overall. Ex: Germany, Scandinavia, Europe. This means investments in good environmental practices not only lower the absolute amount the country emits, but they lower it per-capita as well. I think that means that these practices don't harm overall GDP. That's important!
How about pixels per hour instead of frames per second? It results in much bigger numbers. :-)
So what are you measuring the speed in, miles per hour?
No, the OP is correct, Hz is largely irrelevant. To answer your question, you measure speed in dhrystones, whetstones, flops, fill rate, FPS, and whatever units are used by popular apps like Passmark. Measuring CPU or GPU speed in Hz is like measuring the speed of a car speed in RPM.
(And the US is already one of the least polluting nation
I keep hearing that we are one of the worst, or at least the worst per-capita. But maybe that depends on how you define pollution. In regards to the Paris agreement, CO2 is the relevant pollutant. The EPA claims that we are second to China which probably matches the worst per-capita statement, since we have a way lower population than China. Wikipedia has some good charts too.
How about change the voice mail to say "By leaving a voice mail message on this voice mailbox, I certify that I will pay $1,000 per call and beat myself about the face and neck with a baseball bat."
How would they know it is a replica?
the license plate does not belong to the car owner, but belongs to the state. It may be a bit of a hollow argument,
OMG, are you serious? That is pretty weak! If that is their basis, then someone could make a replica license plate that looks just like theirs, but isn't. Then could that person claim that they can't take the pictures?
What kind of hardware do you have? Skype's whiteboard support is terrible. Given a real whiteboard and Skype, nobody chooses Skype.
Suppose president X gives a televised speech every day at the VFW hall on M street. People can attend in person, or call-in and ask questions. Someone shows up with a picture of Pope Francis looking and frowning at Trump captioned "this is pretty much how the whole world sees you." During the Q&A period, they walk up to the camera with their picture so that it is broadcast. President X asks that the VFW hall not permit the person to take the stage during the Q&A period.
The person can go to the VFW hall, can still bring the picture, and can still hear the presidents speech. They just can't use the Q&A period to broadcast their picture. In reality, this happens all the time with various events that politicians hold. They don't allow certain reporters to attend, and clearly that is politically based. They only go on certain talk shows with certain hosts on certain networks. And the hosts won't allow certain people to ask questions.
I think this analogy is correct because the person didn't have their Twitter account blocked. Their posts just don't show-up in response to the president's comments. They can't respond to the president in his part of the forum.
But that case was based on the fact that the police had to physically touch the car to install it. So the precedent is very narrow. If they could track the car without physically touching it, then they have a way around the limitation. Given the prevalence of license plate scanners, traffic cameras, cell towers, drones, and camera-laden aircraft, it seems like that case won't have teeth for very long.
How do you do design discussions?
I am an introvert, and I love getting into the coding zone. But I don't get how you can design software remotely. Design sessions are typically 2-3 people in front of a whiteboard, sharing a keyboard and screen, vehemently discussing things with our hands, eyes, and voices. Having worked remotely for 3 years, there was just no good way to collaborate on design. People silo'd, vanished for hours or days, and efficiency suffered.
This seems like an erosion of the law. I don't think the law intended for buying coffee to form an implicit contract where the seller could enforce any arbitrary rules whatsoever.
Because thanks to Orin Hatch (R-Utah) the burden of proof is on the FDA
Can you explain what you mean by that? As someone who works on FDA-approved medical devices, I can tell you that this is now how the FDA works. The burden of proof is always on the company that makes the claims. Is there some kind of special case that this company is working under where the rules are different?
If you limit the payments to only low-income people, it's welfare and not universal income.
Two items of business here:
1. What's the difference between giving UBI to the low-income people, versus giving it to everyone than taking it back from the wealthy in taxes?
They are essentially the same. One is possibly more efficienct, but really the difference is political. As you point out: what exactly is "universal income?"
2. The word "welfare" has been politicized to mean "stuff given to low-income people" but that is not what it means. Medicare, food stamps, social security, schools, veterans assistance, police, and fire service are all welfare programs. This definition is important both because it is used in the preamble to the constitution, and because opens one to the realization that Democrats and Republicals are both in favor of welfare. But Democrats favor welfare for the poor, and Republicans favor of welfare for the elderly. Basically, both parties tax-and-spend the same way, just targeting different constituents.
Exactly. I have relatives who are social workers of varying kinds. They deal with people on a day-to-day basis who would blow their entire check on drugs/alcohol/horse racing/soda if they could. Many of the people on public housing, food stamps, section 8, unemployment, etc are there because they are mentally handicapped in some way. If we replace all that with a UBI, I fear homelessness will skyrocket.
Unsolved mystery since 1995: Why do web browsers support popup windows? It might be the worst idea since the <marquee> tag.
Just for funsies I loaded up my Windows NT 3.51 VM I have around for no good reason and it immediately hard-locked.
FTFY
A few years ago, they did start to get hobbiest stuff back in. That was *almost* the right move. But their employees didn't know anything about the new products. Why buy retail if they don't know their own product line?
My favorite incident was when they had an in-store video advertisement for a Sphero. I asked the cashier where to find them, and they didn't know what a Sphero was. It turned out they didn't sell them! *facepalm*
It's tragic as I would really like to see someone fill the void and maybe mom and pop shops will. That's what I can hope for anyway.
My local mom-and-pop store closed recently too. It was a great place to buy antennas, loose electronics parts, connectors, soldering irons, push buttons, etc. It was a cool store, and their employees did actually know stuff - but it hadn't changed since 1985. They didn't know what an ARM or a Raspberry Pi or a 3D printer were. But the worst was their hours. Weekdays they closed at 6pm and they were closed Sundays. I almost want to buy the store and re-open it 5pm - 10pm weekdays, plus Saturday and Sunday. THAT is when people need the store open!